1962 Egg Harbor Express Cruiser - Bruno (named after our dearly departed dachshund of 17 years)

I am the third owner, having acquired her from the estate of Inger McGinnis. I have started the restoration from the bottom up having completed a refastening, paint, all new running gear, fresh electrical systems and new in-house systems. Overall she is very original and the only one of three, I know of to not have a fly bridge.

She cruises at 10-12 knots with a top speed of 18 knots.

History of Egg Harbor Boats

In the early 60s, an Egg Harbor dealer invited George Stadel to design a 36-footer (11 meters). After a year of production, the 36 morphed into the now-famous Egg Harbor 37 (11.3 meters).

As Stadel’s son Bill recalls, “My father designed a lot of lobster boats. The Egg Harbor 37 is essentially a beamy lobster boat.” He remembers his father designing the 37 in four long days, modifying the 36 to make it a bit finer in the bow and removing the tumblehome back aft, thereby adding beam at the sheerline. The 37 is widely recognized as “the boat that created the Egg Harbor brand.”

Egg Harbor started building 50 of the 37s per year and increased production to 100 per year. The final count was somewhere between 800 and 850 hulls over a period of about 10 years.